One must remember that the Dark Night is still a beginner stage. The stage of the proficients begins with the Illuminative State.
Here are the Dark Night posts, or at least some of them, again. There are really 183 on this subject.
30 Mar 2015
One of the few "lights"of Holy Week for the person in the Dark Night. is that Christ joins us in His Own darkness. Christ allowed Himself to take our sins upon Himself and experience the type of suffering we suffer daily because ...
16 Dec 2014
Fascinating Article-VIP for Podding · Please,. Tuesday, 16 December 2014. Well, like being in the Dark Night. Posted by Supertradmum · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest. No comments:.
22 Oct 2013
The list I made yesterday, distilling some of the characteristics of the Dark Night from John of the Cross' writings shows that one can endure this purgation here and now. Why wait until purgatory? Why put off what can be done ...
27 Oct 2014
4 My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God? 5 These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to ...
13 Oct 2014
Thoughts from The Dark Night. Posted by Supertradmum. Humility is the key to holiness. All the saints state this but most of us do not take this seriously. Even those great saints who did not seem prideful, like St. Alphonsus, ...
04 Aug 2014
Some of this post is a repetition of earlier ones on the Dark Night and the passions. But, because I have met so many young people under the age of fifty, who have never in their life heard any teaching on the passions or ...
28 Apr 2014
I want to add something on the Dark Night of the Spirit. The Dark Night of the Senses seems more obvious, when God weans one from reliance on sight, sound, taste, feel, and smell. One no longer has any joy or consolation ...
06 Aug 2014
One of the worst parts of the Dark Night is the fact that one realizes one should be damned for one's sins. This awareness of the life of failure to respond to grace, the missed opportunities for growth in holiness, the persistence ...
09 Jun 2014
Many weeks have passed since I have written on the Dark Night. Today, I want to emphasize one aspect, returning to some of the ideas written last year. Just use the tags. A double-edged sword of the Dark Night is the ...
29 Mar 2014
Purification is not to be confused with despair. One does think and even feel like one may be damned while one is experiencing the Dark Night. But, that is normal. To finally realize that one deserves to be damned for one's ...
21 Oct 2013
For those in the Dark Night, the beginning of the second stage is the end of the purification of the senses. The next stage, the purification of the spirit, is the first stage for those who are called the proficients. The early stages of ...
28 Mar 2014
One no longer desires to be religious, or holy. One no longer "feels" the Presence of God or "feels" like one loves God. These false feelings must be struck dead. Feelings belie faith and in the Dark Night, one lives in faith only.
05 Nov 2013
I shall try and simplify the ideas. The first point is that Kavanaugh points out that the ascent of the spirit is initiated by us, but the Dark Night is initiated by God. I do know this is true. Only God can take us into the passive part of ...
20 Oct 2013
So many do not work through the Dark Night to the point of being free enough to allow the virtues to come to the fore. One feels and sees one's weaknesses, states St. John and, therefore, one practices fortitude. One does not ...
23 Oct 2013
I have written on this subject before on this blog. In ourselves, as one approachs God in the Dark Night, one begins to realize that for a long time, fear has blocked one's openness to the love of God and the love of other people ...
15 Jun 2014
Encouragement from Cardinal Manning in The Dark Night. Posted by Supertradmum. I write this for S and J, especially.. The great man writes this: “…do not be afraid when the consciousness of your past sins and of your ...
13 Aug 2014
For without dealing with our predominant fault, there is no moving on into the Dark Night, Illumnative and Unitive states. Later on, I can show how the predominant fault, unless dealt with in this life, is the reason we go to .
05 Nov 2013
A gentle reminder is that the Dark Night is a grace, but one offered to all. How long it takes is up to God. For some, it lasts months and for some years. Again, one is reminded of Blessed Mother Teresa's 50 years in the Dark ...
01 Sep 2013
But the great temptations of the Dark Night, spiritual pride and sexual sins, reveal the deep of imperfection in the soul, mind, heart, senses. The temptations are blessings, the soap, which cleans the heart, mind, soul, as one ...
02 Nov 2013
Yet until a soul is placed by God in the passive purgation of that dark night, which we will soon explain, it cannot purify itself completely of these imperfections or others. But people should insofar as possible strive to do their ...
20 Oct 2013
Sometimes, in the Dark Night, God brings one to a taste of His Great Love. We do not will this or even ask for it. This just happens. This good is not continuous in the Dark Night. And, one does not even perceive the Love of ...
02 Sep 2013
Three, the Dark Night of the Spirit brings the experience of love into the soul, mind, will and body which has undergone purgation. If these faculties are purified, one experiences the power of the Holy Spirit, yet unknowingly, ...
19 Jan 2014
I have written before on the difference between the Dark Night of the Soul, when no consolations are felt or seen by the person involved, and despair. The two states are completely different. In despair, hope is gone. Faith is ...
19 Oct 2013
For those friends of mine in the Dark Night, I want to share some ideas from the writings of St. John of the Cross. For those who have not been following this series, just click on the tags below. I want to highlight a few points ...
15 Dec 2013
Today's Gospel reflects the necessity for the Dark Night of the Soul-the death of the sensual side of us. The senses must be so pure that these only desire God alone and nothing else. St. John of the Cross, whose feast it is ...
28 Oct 2013
This virtue grows in the Dark Night of the Soul. Father Phelim quotes St. John of the Cross, that, "the more things we possess the less scope and capacity there is for hoping and consequently, the less hope we have." He notes ...
25 Dec 2013
One begins to love the Dark Night, because one has an underlying sense of resting in God, even though in darkness and this knowledge, that God is leading one brings a comfort, even in the unknown. Because of faith, one ...
02 Nov 2013
Before I move on to more on the Dark Night of the Senses and Spirit, I shall share a positive goal, which many need to remember when going through such suffering. Here is St. John of the Cross on this goal. If a model for the ...
There are more than this on the blog. Here are some more on purgation...
The Next Levels of Prayer-After the Dark Night
29 Sep 2013
Too often, we choose not to cooperate, as it is too hard to face the purgation which must happen in the Dark Night. Now, some people, especially young saints, do not have much purgation. Obviously, the more sinful we are ...
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Etheldredasplace: Dark Night Discussion
28 Oct 2013
Re-post from August on the Dark Night · Dark Night Discussion · Coptic Persecution Watch · Moving towards religious tolerance in Egypt · Another good Vortex especially for the relativists... If you missed this, please watch it ...
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Etheldredasplace: Second Poem Revealing The Dark Night
03 Nov 2013
Second Poem Revealing The Dark Night. Posted by Supertradmum · http://www.ccel.org/n/newman/gerontius/gerontius.htm a beautiful poem about a soul in purgatory and one which reveals a personal experience of ...
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Etheldredasplace: Dark Night of the Soul, Part 19
02 Aug 2013
As mentioned before in the perfection series, St. David himself is an example of one who knew this movement of the Holy Spirit. John of the Cross makes here the distinction between the dark night of the senses-the ...
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